Last Call: Beatrix Potter at the Morgan Library and Museum, closing June 9th

 Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature 

at the Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, NYC

Closing on Sunday, June 9th at 5 pm.

It is my sad duty to remind you that the enchanting Beatrix Potter exhibition at The Morgan will close tomorrow at 5 pm, when the museum closes its door for the day.  Please don't just hop, Peter Rabbit fans, but run to this incomparable opportunity to see Ms. Potter's exquisite botanical and fairytale drawings and watercolors.  She was an extraordinarily gifted artist and entrepreneur.  Learn about the first author who knew how to market her books and her brand.

Click on this link to watch the video.  And this link link to learn more about her life.

Bon weekend,

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD

Director/Owner, New York Arts Exchange, LLC

and Za Mir Press

Frontispiece: The Tailor Mouse, c. 1902, Tate MuseumTate Museum

Lady Mouse in a Mob Hat, c. 1902 Tate Museum

The Mice at Work: Threading the Needle, c. 1902, Tate Museum

 

Last Call: Cézanne's Drawings at MoMA; Shadzia Sikander at the Morgan

Paul Cézanne, Vase of Flowers, 1885-88

The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

The end of the Summer Season exhibition is nigh, evidenced by the closing of two superb shows that demonstrate the transformative magic of drawing and painting on paper.

Cézanne Drawing closes today at the Museum of Modern Art to non-members and tomorrow to members of the museum.  It's a glorious exhibition that needs to be seen in person.  If you haven't been to the the show yet and can't visit today, please considered becoming a member of the Museum of Modern Art in order to see the show tomorrow. Our NY museums deeply appreciate your financial support, and these magnificent drawings deserve your undivided attention.

Shadzia Sikander, Mirrat I (1989-90)

Sean Kelly and Pilar Corrias, London

 

Shahzia Sikander’s exhibition Extraordinary Realities, at the Morgan Library & Museum closes on Sunday, September 26th.  It traces the artist's first 15 years as a professional artist, beginning with undergraduate work produced at the National College of Art in Lahore, Pakistan, her hometown. Sikander completed her graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 1995, and spent 1995-1997 in  Houston, Texas.  She currently lives in New York.  Mirrat I was made while Sikander was an undergraduate student in Pakistan, where she studied traditional miniature painting.  Her work layers traditional imagery and her original figures and forms to provide feminist commentary on contemporary issues.

Shahzia Sikander's New York Times essay in the series "What Do We Believe?" was published on May 25, 2021.

For more information about the artists and exhibitions, please visit the website links provided here.  Exhibition images, videos, and podcasts are available on both websites.

Best wishes for the Fall,

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nešić, Ph.D.

Director

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

www.nyarts-exchange.com

Credit...Shahzia Sikander, Sean Kelly and Pilar Corrias

 

Labor Day Weekend - Last Call for September/October Closings

Milton Avery (American, 1885-1965). Swimmers and Sunbathers, 1945. 

Oil on canvas, 28 x 48 1/4 in.

 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger, 1951 (51.97). 

© 2019 The Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), 

New York. Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY.

Labor Day is nigh and the end of summer is here!  I sincerely hope you all had wonderful summers with friends and family, whether here in New York or far, far away.  

Now is the time to catch the last days of the New York Summer Season's best exhibitions, each closing very soon. Here is the list:

James McNeill Whistler, Fumette, 1858.

 Etching and drypoint, black ink on cream French laid paper, 6 3/8 × 4 1/4 inches. 

Gertrude Kosovsky Collection; © The Frick Collection

Labor Day Weekend:

Whistler as Printmaker: Highlights from the Gertrude Kosovsky Collection, Frick Museum, through Sunday, September 1.

Summer with the Averys: Milton, Sally and March, and Sharks! Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, September 1.  (This one venue is perfect for the family as both exhibitions are suitable for children of all ages.)

Ragnar Kjartansson:  Death is Elsewhere, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through September 2.

Blue Man Group: Ready . . . Go!, Museum of the City of New York, through September 2

Anne Samat, Che Yah (The Greatest Love),2019

Next weekend:

Camp: Notes on Fashion, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through September 8.

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, The Jewish Museum, through September 8.

Anne Samat: Greatest Love, Hudson Valley Museum of Modern Art, Peekskill, NY, through September 8

Two weeks from now:

Summer Revolution, New York Historical Society, through September 15.

Walt Whitman, Bard of Democracy, Morgan Library and Museum, September 15.

Three weeks from now:

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, through September 22.

Hogarth: Cruel and Humor, Morgan Library and Museum, through September 22.

Mrinalini Mukherjee, Aranyani, 1996

Last weekend in September/October 1:

Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee, Met Breuer, through September 29.

Free Lecture on Thursday, September 5th, 6:30 and Gallery Talk on Tuesday, September 10th, 12:30.

From Manet to Picasso: The Thannhauser Colllection, Guggenheim Museum, through September 29.

Best wishes for the Labor Day Weekend and the Fall Season ahead - 

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director and owner

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

Last Call for Frida in Brooklyn; Tolkien at the Morgan, through May 12

Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving

Brooklyn Museum, through May 12th

The exciting exhibition of Frida Kahlo's art, fashion, personal possessions, and image in photos and film will close on Sunday, May 12th at 10 pm.  All advance-sale timed tickets are no longer available, but you can try to purchase a timed ticket through the Membership link on the Brooklyn Museum's website, provided you become a member.  Here is the info for new membership only 

I will be among those unfortunates who missed the show - but such is life.

Here are two reviews that offer views from afar:

Vivian Wang on Latin X

Stephanie Huber on Hyperallergic

Conversation with Smaug, a watercolour painted by Tolkien in 1937 as an illustration for the first American edition of The Hobbit. In this image, Bilbo Baggins, rendered invisible by a magic ring, converses with the fire-breathing dragon, Smaug.

Tolkien:Maker of Middle Earth at the Morgan Library also closes on Sunday, May 12th.  A brilliant show, I highly recommend going on Friday evening, when the Morgan is open until 9 pm.  The lines for this show will be painfully long over the weekend, I am sure.  (Don't forget to watch the video on the Morgan website, available with the link provided here.)

Augusta Savage, with Realization, 1938

For those of you who are seeking a less crowded museum visit for Mother's Day, may I suggest the New York Historical Society, which features two great shows:

Betye Saar, Keeping It Clean, through May 27

Augusta Savage, Renaissance Woman, through July 28

There are two choices for dining: Parliment café and Storico restaurant

Other exhibitions that may have substantial crowds:

Camp, the Costume Institute exhibition (through the summer), and The Tale of Genji (through June 17) at the Met Museum

Leonard Cohen at the Jewish Museum through September 8

Please consult our website's "Free or Pay-What-You-Wish" page for more ideas to celebrate Mom.

Happy Mother's Day to you and your families,

Beth New York

aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director and owner

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

Happy 2019 - Last call for top exhibitions closing in January

Dear friends,

Wishing you joy, good health and peace of mind in the new year!

Here are my top choices for the exhibitions closing in January:

"Everything is Connected," Met Breuer, closing January 6

Delacroix, Metropolitan Museum on 5th, closing January 6

Tintoretto, Pontormo, and "Frankenstein," Morgan Library, closing January 6

Current exhibition, Scandinavia House, closing January 12

Charles White, Museum of Modern Art, closing January 13

Architecture in Yugoslavia, post WWII, Museum of Modern Art, closing January 13

Yasumasa Morimuri, Japan Society, closing January 13

Jan van Eyck, The Charter House at Bruges, Frick Collection, closing January 13

 August Macke and Franz Marc, Neuegalerie, closing January 21

Lillian Porter, El Museo del Barrio, closing January 27

Harry Potter, NY Historical Society, closing January 27

Cheers!

Beth New York

aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director and owner

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

Spring Art Tours 2013, Wednesdays, April 3 through June 5

Claude Monet, Women in a Garden, 1866-67

Musée d'Orsay, Paris. 

Few paintings say "spring" as well as Claude Monet's women surrounded by masses of flowers in full bloom.  This year, spring officially arrives on March 20th. For the New York Arts Exchange, spring arrives a bit later, after Passover and Easter.  Please join our Spring Art Tours, beginning April 3rd through June 5th.  To accommodate visits to the National Academy and the Whitney Museum, we are switching back to Wednesdays.  Please join us for the New York Spring Art Season in full flower:

Spring Art Tours on Wednesdays, April 3 through June 5

$500 the series; $60 each

• April 3 – Surrealism, French drawings at the Morgan Library
• April 10 – National Academy – “Seismic Shifts”
• April 17 – Uptown Galleries - Gagosian "Neil Jenny" and Pop Still Life at Aquavella
• April 24 – Frick –  (limited to series subscription)
• May   1 –Chelsea
• May   7 - Tuesday - Christie's Impressionism and Modern Art
• May 15 – 
• May 22 – J. Nares, Impressionism, etc.(closing 5-27); Punk at the Met                   
• May 29 – Midtown galleries
• June  5 – Chelsea

To reserve a place, please write to nyarts.exchange@verizon.net.   

We look forward to having your company for our unique conversational tours.

(Last Winter Session II tour on Tuesday, March 19: Chelsea, 1:30 pm, meeting at Gagosian, West 24th Street.)

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts.exchange.com